Patents by Inventor Weijiang Zhao
Weijiang Zhao has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 12272588Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a wafer clamp including a mechanical clamp and an electrostatic chuck, and a controller that controls the wafer clamp to selective clamp a wafer using only the mechanical clamp based on a processing temperature of a wafer.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: NISSIN ION EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki Murayama, Yuya Hirai, Weijiang Zhao
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Publication number: 20250029865Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a wafer clamp including a mechanical clamp and an electrostatic chuck, and a controller that controls the wafer clamp to selective clamp a wafer using only the mechanical clamp based on a processing temperature of a wafer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2024Publication date: January 23, 2025Applicant: NISSIN ION EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki MURAYAMA, Yuya HIRAI, Weijiang ZHAO
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Publication number: 20240404787Abstract: An ion implanter includes an angle measurement apparatus that measures a first angle of an ion beam in a first direction and a second angle of the ion beam in a second direction, the first direction and the second direction being mutually orthogonal to a traveling direction of the ion beam, an angle corrector that is located in a beamline of the ion beam and corrects an angle of the ion beam in the first direction based on the first angle, a wafer holder that holds a wafer in a process chamber, a tilt device that is connected to the wafer holder and that rotates the wafer around a rotation axis parallel to the first direction, and a controller that controls the tilt device based on the second angle, crystal axis information of the wafer, and implantation recipe information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2024Publication date: December 5, 2024Applicant: NISSIN ION EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuya HIRAI, Weijiang Zhao, Shunsuke Omura, Akihito Nakanishi, Takumi Sato
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Publication number: 20240186101Abstract: An vaporizer includes a crucible, a heater that heats the crucible, a support member that supports the crucible and includes an internal space in which a pressure in the internal space can be changed, and a control device. The control device increases the pressure of the internal space when the heating of the crucible by the heater is stopped, compared to the pressure when the crucible is heated by the heater.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2023Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: NISSIN ION EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuya HIRAI, Yuta IWANAMI, Suguru ITOI, Weijiang ZHAO
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Publication number: 20240038499Abstract: An ion source includes a vaporizer, a plasma chamber, and a controller. The vaporizer produces a reaction product by supplying, through a first gas supply line to a crucible in which a solid material is installed, a reactive gas that reacts with the solid material, and vaporizes the reaction product by heating the crucible with a heater. The plasma chamber is supplied with a vapor from the vaporizer through a vapor supply line, and has a second gas supply line connected to the plasma chamber separately from the vapor supply line. The controller controls the heater to heat the crucible while a gas is being supplied from the second gas supply line to the plasma chamber and stops a supply of the reactive gas through the first gas supply line to the crucible.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Nissin Ion Equipment Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuta IWANAMI, Yuya HIRAI, Suguru ITOI, Weijiang ZHAO
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Patent number: 11749501Abstract: An ion implantation apparatus includes a transfer device that transfers a wafer, a support device that supports the wafer at an implantation position, and a control device that controls the ion implantation apparatus to perform chain implantation processing on the wafer, and that controls the transfer device or the support device according to warpage information of the wafer.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: NISSIN ION EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Jian Wang, Shinsuke Inoue, Yuta Iwanami, Takashi Sakamoto, Weijiang Zhao
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Publication number: 20230008178Abstract: A hydrogen supply device disposed in a high-potential section includes a bottle internally provided with a hydrogen absorbing alloy.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Applicant: NISSIN ION EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuya HIRAI, Weijiang ZHAO, Suguru ITOI, Yuta IWANAMI
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Publication number: 20220189736Abstract: An ion implantation apparatus includes a transfer device that transfers a wafer, a support device that supports the wafer at an implantation position, and a control device that controls the ion implantation apparatus to perform chain implantation processing on the wafer, and that controls the transfer device or the support device according to warpage information of the wafer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: NISSIN ION EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Jian WANG, Shinsuke Inoue, Yuta Iwanami, Takashi Sakamoto, Weijiang Zhao
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Patent number: 10600608Abstract: An ion source is provided. The ion source includes a plasma generation chamber, a plate member, and an extraction electrode. The plasma generation chamber is supplied with a halogen-containing material. The plate member is provided on an end of the plasma generation chamber located on a side toward which an ion beam is extracted. The extraction electrode is disposed downstream of the plate member. The plate member is formed with a gas supply passage via which hydrogen gas is supplied to the extraction electrode.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: NISSIN ION EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masakazu Adachi, Shigeki Sakai, Yuya Hirai, Takayuki Murayama, Tomoya Taniguchi, Weijiang Zhao
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Patent number: 9601359Abstract: A substrate holding device is provided with an electrostatic chuck that has an electrode therein and is provided with a substrate holding surface, on one side of which a substrate is held; a displacement gauge that is disposed above or below the substrate holding surface; and a controller which, along with using the displacement gauge to measure a first distance to the substrate when a substrate is placed on the substrate holding surface, uses the displacement gauge to measure a second distance to the substrate after a predetermined voltage is applied to the electrode of the electrostatic chuck and, based on the difference between the measured distances, ascertains whether the clamping of the substrate to the electrostatic chuck has been performed in a normal manner.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: NISSIN ION EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Weijiang Zhao, Kazuki Tobikawa
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Publication number: 20150162232Abstract: A substrate holding device is provided with an electrostatic chuck that has an electrode therein and is provided with a substrate holding surface, on one side of which a substrate is held; a displacement gauge that is disposed above or below the substrate holding surface; and a controller which, along with using the displacement gauge to measure a first distance to the substrate when a substrate is placed on the substrate holding surface, uses the displacement gauge to measure a second distance to the substrate after a predetermined voltage is applied to the electrode of the electrostatic chuck and, based on the difference between the measured distances, ascertains whether the clamping of the substrate to the electrostatic chuck has been performed in a normal manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2014Publication date: June 11, 2015Inventors: Weijiang ZHAO, Kazuki TOBIKAWA
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Patent number: 7635850Abstract: An analyzing electromagnet constituting an ion implanter has a first inner coil, a second inner coil, three first outer coils, three second outer coils, and a yoke. The inner coils are saddle-shaped coils cooperating with each other to generate a main magnetic field which bends an ion beam in the X direction. Each of the outer coils is a saddle-shaped coil which generates a sub-magnetic field correcting the main magnetic field. Each of the coils has a configuration where a notched portion is disposed in a fan-shaped cylindrical stacked coil configured by: winding a laminations of an insulation sheet and a conductor sheet in multiple turn on an outer peripheral face of a laminated insulator; and forming a laminated insulator on an outer peripheral face.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2007Date of Patent: December 22, 2009Assignee: Nissin Ion Equipment Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takatoshi Yamashita, Tadashi Ikejiri, Kohei Tanaka, Weijiang Zhao, Hideyuki Tanaka
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Publication number: 20080135777Abstract: The projection distances of connecting portions of a coil are reduced, thereby enabling the size and power consumption of an analyzing electromagnet to be reduced, and therefore the size and power consumption of an ion implanting apparatus are enabled to be reduced. [Means for Resolution] An analyzing electromagnet 200 constituting an ion implanting apparatus has a first inner coil 206, a second inner coil 212, three first outer coils 218, three second outer coils 224, and a yoke 230. The inner coils 206, 212 are saddle-shaped coils cooperating with each other to generate a main magnetic field which bends an ion beam in the X direction. Each of the outer coils 218, 224 is a saddle-shaped coil which generates a sub-magnetic field correcting the main magnetic field.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2007Publication date: June 12, 2008Inventors: Takatoshi Yamashita, Tadashi Ikejiri, Kohei Tanaka, Weijiang Zhao, Hideyuki Tanaka